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At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.
For 15 years, my students and I huddled together in cozy classrooms to study the craft of writing. Then came Covid-19.
A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.
For those of us with vulnerable loved ones, the risks of Covid-19 seem more dangerous than ever—with no end in sight.
Like her brother Elon, Tosca Musk is a revolutionary—in the steamy, softcore genre of romance movies.
Videogame developer Naughty Dog was racing to finish the sequel to its blockbuster set in a post-pandemic dystopia. Then it was hit with trolls, hackers—and a real pandemic.
As the world scrambles to develop an inoculation against Covid-19, it’s worth understanding the early, extraordinary history of the technique.
A view of the Washington, DC, of tomorrow, excerpted from Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.
The point wasn’t so much about pay issues, but to give workers more say over what they produce—reflecting a trend of internal protest across the tech industry.
Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.